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Highlights
- How is it that we can recognize photos from our high school yearbook decades later, but cannot remember what we ate for breakfast yesterday?
- Author(s): Gary Marcus
- 224 Pages
- Science, Life Sciences
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About the Book
A New York University psychologist argues that the mind is a "kluge"-a clumsy, cobbled-together contraption-as he ponders the accidents of evolution that caused this structure and what we can do about it.Book Synopsis
How is it that we can recognize photos from our high school yearbook decades later, but cannot remember what we ate for breakfast yesterday? And why are we inclined to buy more cans of soup if the sign says "LIMIT 12 PER CUSTOMER" rather than "LIMIT 4 PER CUSTOMER?" In Kluge, Gary Marcus argues convincingly that our minds are not as elegantly designed as we may believe. The imperfections result from a haphazard evolutionary process that often proceeds by piling new systems on top of old ones--and those systems don't always work well together. The end product is a "kluge," a clumsy, cobbled-together contraption. Taking us on a tour of the essential areas of human experience--memory, belief, decision making, language, and happiness--Marcus unveils a fundamentally new way of looking at the evolution of the human mind and simultaneously sheds light on some of the most mysterious aspects of human nature.Dimensions (Overall): 7.9 Inches (H) x 5.2 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)
Weight: .45 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 224
Genre: Science
Sub-Genre: Life Sciences
Publisher: Mariner Books
Theme: Human Anatomy & Physiology
Format: Paperback
Author: Gary Marcus
Language: English
Street Date: April 7, 2009
TCIN: 79259370
UPC: 9780547238241
Item Number (DPCI): 247-20-6935
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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